Ed Royce: “With respect to the strategy to bring India into the MPT, in our considered judgment, and the judgment of the majority…”

“With respect to the strategy to bring India into the MPT, in our considered judgment, and the judgment of the majority of the Members of this House, it is a wiser policy to bring them into the tent, to get their cooperation and to focus on using nuclear energy to produce energy for peaceful purposes in India. Now, with respect to North Korea, it remains a very real threat with over a million troops, possibly several nuclear weapons, and most importantly, the propensity to export these types of weapons. This is not something we have seen from India in the past. But North Korea is an exporter of its missiles and of its technology. And for that very reason, the goal of this legislation is to put a prohibition on the transfer to North Korea of the types of technologies that could be used by North Korea in order to further develop its weapons systems. It is that simple. It is the same with respect to Iran. It is the same with respect to Syria. Now, we are putting in place a provision stating that North Korea shall not have the ability to receive from the United States or any companies in the United States this type of technology. U.S. companies will not be able to be licensed to export this kind of technology. They will be sanctioned if they attempt it.”